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ICE, happy ending (relatively speaking)
@bright_helpings here's something that made me cry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppfFrlvaXgE
this is a clip that a woman from the USA took when the ICE banged on her door chasing after the delivery lady of her DoorDash order (a gig-economy food service).
in the space of 13 tense minutes we see her speedrun a political awakening like:
- why is this happening to me? I just ordered a DoorDash what's going on??
- I'm requested to bring this woman to police, she didn't do anything, this is so unfair why do I have to do this
- I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm going to post this on Tiktok ok, I have followers we're going to do something about it, there's nothing I can do what can I do, we'll protest ok
- omg I'm literally delivering a racial minority that is crying on my basement to a racist paramilitia right now, I'm delivering this woman to a concentration camp, protesting about it is not enough
and then as the immigrant cries in Spanish about not wanting to leave her little daughter alone, something clicks, and the houseowner has that moment that I call stepping up on the stage of history, where she understands exactly what's expected of her; she knows that ICE also kills people like her (this is post-Good), she knows that she might be marking herself and her residence as targets, that it's not off the table at all that she'll just get shot on the spot as a race traitor. nonetheless she steps up and yells at the armed ICE agents, to their faces, to "get off my fucking property, now!"
according to local forums the immigrant lady is safe and receiving community protection now.
when people ask me "what can I do?", this is the video I'll be sending them.
https://alterspring.org/@milliemay hey i guess i'm trying this out, ask me about...giant robots, or cooking. or foam dart blasters. those are your three options
poking and prodding at it more and getting very happy with the results
not sure what settings if any at all i want to surface to the user, unlike ditherinator
@trekkie just watched the first two episodes and i'm feeling exactly the same. who cares that the betazoids aren't identical to how they were in the tng era, who knows how 900 years have affected their telepathic abilities, it's cool as hell to see a deaf character front and center, it's such a great show so far
i actually think starfleet academy may become one of my favourite star trek series, just absolutely loved the first episode, love how it deals with the essentially post apocalypse situation of rebuilding post-burn, starfleet finding it's feet again and relearning what and who it used to be after a century of chaos and barely surviving #startrek
thrilled to see that the dodgers have decided to pay a 30mil/y player double that just to deny any other team the chance at him, great budgeting, not ruining the sport at all #mlb
The so-called "non-violence" of Gandhi and King only worked because there was no real intent to kill on the part of the government, so faced with implacable resolve, and knowing the only other option was to kill, the powers that be eventually relented.
That is not the case with the Trump regime, or the Hitler regime, or any other similar totalitarian regime before.
They not only mean to kill us, they delight in doing so. We are nothing to them, not human, inhuman, subhuman, alien, animal.
it's very important to me that my options for visibly being a top and having girls sit on my lap are maintained even if i have days where i can't stand. the wheelchair will also have a heated seat. and pink fluffy dice
@mavica_again the problem is nowadays we have far better media about a pathetic menial laborer who makes sardonic comments to the audience about the drudgery and suffering of his life, with a disease spreading rodent occasionally appearing.
CV-11 is in fact the better dilbert
I'm unable to find it, but I dimly recall some afterword on one of the Dilbert collections (this was long before dude outed himself as fash) where he claimed to have defeated cancer with the power of positive thinking or something like that.
and I guess he wasn't thinking positively enough this time 
"Scientists design intelligence tests to compare other species to humans, but they tend to overlook alternative modes of knowing. For instance: could I, a human, survive for years in an urban woodlot with as few resources as a skunk? Could I travel many miles of unmarked forest and swamp to find the small hole that leads to my exact wintering den from the previous year? Are those not types of intelligence? While many things about our bodies and behaviors make us distinct from other species, it is unscientific hubris to build a hierarchy out of these traits. This hubris is what has thrust the planet and all its inhabitants into crisis." Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, #ForestEuphoria
Several times a day, if not several times an hour, I see people using "sane" as some sort of synonym for ethical and "insane" as some sort of synonym for unethical.
Think of what you're saying here - instead of grappling with the idea that abled people can do harmful and/or evil things, the moment some threshhold of evil is passed, you simply label them "insane".
This equates disability with evil, and equates being abled with virtue. It's a rhetorical frame to keep you comfortable. #Ableism
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